American Literature Test 5 – Flashcards
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James Fenimore Cooper
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A Rescue
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Annabel Lee
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Herman Melville
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Moby Dick
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Washington Irving
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A Republic of Prairie Dogs
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Topsy
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Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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Two Years before the Mast
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America's first novelist was ________________.
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James Fenimore Cooper
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The Knickerbockers were a group of America's first great imaginative writers.
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True
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___________________ was written about a Civil War Battle near a church.
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Shiloh
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What was the name of Captain Ahab's ship?
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Pequod
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What novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe stirred American opinion against slavery?
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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To whom was Topsy brought to be trained?
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Miss Ophelia
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What novel has been called America's only epic?
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Moby Dick
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Who alone survived the shipwreck in Moby Dick?
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Ishmael
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In Two Years before the Mast, what was causing the author pain?
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Toothache
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On what does "Thanatopsis" meditate?
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Death
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"We traversed the whole village, or Republic, which covered an area of about thirty acres; but not a whisker of an inhabitant was to be seen."
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Washington Irving
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"Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream?"
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Edgar Allan Poe
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"The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck."
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Herman Melville
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"I spect I grow'd. Don't think nobody never made me."
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
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"Vainly the fowlers eye Might mark thy distant flight"
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William Cullen Bryant
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"We were now nearly up to the latitude of Cape Horn."
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Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
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"But we loved with a love that was more than love."
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Edgar Allan Poe
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"Having heard much of the habits and peculiarities of these little animals, I determined to pay a visit to the community."
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Washington Irving
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"While over them the swallows skim, And all is hushed at Shiloh"
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Herman Melville
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" . . . approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams."
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William Cullen Bryant
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"Hoveringly halting, and dipping on the wing"
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Consonance
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"What soulless thing is this that laughs before a wreck?"
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Rhetorical question
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"For an instant his whole marbleized body formed a high arch, like Virginia's natural bridge."
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Simile
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"The first [day] is the morning, the second the noon, and the third the evening and the end of that thing"
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Metaphor
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"Thou blossom bright with autumn dew"
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Alliteration
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Deerslayer
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A Rescue
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St. Clare
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Topsy
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Starbuck
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Moby Dick
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Rivenoak
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A Rescue
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Queequeg
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Moby Dick
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The theme of Moby Dick is "actions with wrong motives lead to destruction". And the symbolism is that Starbuck represents Captain Ahab's conscience. And Moby Dick symbolizes death and terror. The author uses imagery and alliteration to describe the sea.
